Isaiah 28:7

The Passion Translation

Moreover, the prophets and priests are drunk. They stagger because of wine and stumble around because of strong drink. They are confused with wine, stumbling because of strong drink. They’re too drunk to understand their prophetic visions. They’re too drunk to render right decisions in judgment.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:1

A drunkard is obnoxious, loud, and argumentative; you’re a fool to get intoxicated with strong drink.

Proverbs 23:30

It’s the one who drinks too much and is always looking for a brew. Make sure it’s never you!

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord Yahweh has mixed up their minds and poured into them a distorted spirit that will make Egypt dizzy and act like a drunk who staggers around in his own vomit.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, you celebrated with joy and festivity, slaughtering the sheep and the fatted ox, saying, “We will feast on meat and drink much wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Isaiah 24:2

Everyone will experience the same fate— priests and people, masters and slaves, their maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, rich and poor.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunkard, as a hut sways in a storm. Its sin lies heavy upon it; it falls to rise no more.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the pride of Israel’s drunkards, worn like a garland on their heads! Their glory is but wilted flowers, worn like a crown on the heads of those bloated with rich food and overcome by wine.

Isaiah 29:11

This entire prophetic revelation will become to you like the words of a sealed book. If it’s given to one who can read it with the command “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t because it is sealed.”

Isaiah 3:12

My people, mockers exploit you and creditors rule over you. My people, your leaders mislead you and confuse you with their guidance.

Isaiah 43:27

Your earliest ancestor sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against me.

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who start drinking early in the morning, lingering late into the night to get drunk with wine.

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to the champion wine drinkers who are heroes in mixing strong drinks—

Isaiah 5:23

judges and politicians who acquit the guilty for a bribe and take away the rights of the innocent.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then Yahweh replied: “The prophets are using my name to lie to the people. I’ve not sent them or commissioned them. I’ve not spoken a word to them. They prophesy false promises and speak of an imaginary future—things they have made up in their minds.

Jeremiah 23:13

The prophets of Samaria were disgusting to me! They prophesied in the name of Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Jeremiah 23:16

So I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, say: Ignore what those prophets prophesy to you; they are deluding you and imagining visions of their own, and not what comes from the mouth of Yahweh.

Lamentations 2:4

He bent his bow like an enemy and clenched his fist like a foe. Like an enemy, he slaughtered all his pride and joy. He poured out his fury like fire on the temple of beloved Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 13:7

Have you not seen false visions and prophesied false prophecies of the future? You declare: “This is what Yahweh says,” when I had not spoken.

Ezekiel 44:21

“Priests must not drink wine before they enter the inner court.

Matthew 24:29

“Then immediately this is what will take place: ‘The sun will be darkened and the moon give no light. The stars will fall from the sky and all the cosmic powers will be shaken.’

Luke 21:34

“Be careful that you never allow your hearts to grow cold. Be careful that you are not caught off guard, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, and that day will come upon you suddenly like a trap. Don’t let me come and find you drunk or living carelessly like everyone else.

Ephesians 5:28

Husbands have the obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way they love and care for their own bodies, for to love your wife is to love your own self.